i don't want to go to bed..

I'm bored but I don't feel like going to bed. I just drank a glass of sorrel(sp?) For those of you who aren't Bajian(sp?) (from Barbados) its a drink made from the bark of a tree I think. It's boiled and then you add sugar N junk. It's quite tasty and seem like it would go good with rum, I don't drink, but it just seems right,lol. Well I suppose that I'll update you on the life that is me. Well I'm home for the break. It has been quite nice being home. I sleep in everyday until noon,lol, I eat yummy food, I spend time with my family, I sit around alot and just relax. Its quite nice indeed. We had the whole family here for christmas and it was really nice to have a full house and open presents and junk. I opened presents LAST this year. I'm not sure that I've ever done that before. I got a digital camera, a coal mining book, some shorts and shirts, and umm...some golf balls, and itunes gift card and..some other stuff! It was a pretty good christmas. I got my ideas for my door decs and bulletin boards while being home. It was nice to just sit here and brainstorm for a good hour, writing ideas down and such. I think I came up with some good ideas and I hope my residents like that. I've got to be a better RA this semester. I say that every semester, but its true. BTW, its 37 degrees here. WOW thats cold. Tonight I felt like sitting around and listening to sappy music. I don't really like that, so I didn't let myself slip too far into that. I'm listening to music, but its not really sappy. I WANT NEW GOLF CLUBS! I've got my eye on some, but I just have to wait until I get more money. If I wasn't completely irresposible with my money in the fall, I'd already have them. I figure I need to save up about $400 or so. I think I can do that in about 2 months if I REALLY save. I get paid $160 every two weeks. That would mean I'd have to live off of $60 every two weeks. Can it be done?! I'd like to think so. It'd also be pretty cool if I got to work at SGH a couple times a month to help. Its late and I should go to bed, my head hurts too. But honestly, I don't want to. Last night I had TWO blankets on me and I was STILL cold. That's crazy. I mean, I sleep with two blankets in my apartment, but thats because I keep the air on 68 when I sleep intentionally. I slept with two blanks out of necessity! lol. So what do you want to read here? How can I keep you more entertained? and by YOU I mean the 4-5 people who read this? Basketball season is here and I can't wait for pep band! I love pep band, its all the fun of marching band without all the suckiness of rehearsal. Plus, I get to play drumset. I can't believe that I'm going to be 23 years old in a month. I certainly don't feel like an adult. I feel like I still make dumb, teenager mistakes. I'm almost 23 yrs old and thats just weird. I remember when my brother was 23.. I was in 8th grade. Did my brother do the same things I do when he was 23? My brother is married and has a baby..will I be married and have a baby in 9 years? Geeze, things just got real up in here. And I can't believe I used the phrase "up in here." lol. Alright, I guess I'm done being serious for now. Oh BTW, the Star Wars episode of Robot Chicken is one of the funniest freaking things I've ever seen. Watch it. Enjoy it. Love it. I'm gunna go to bed now. But before I do that I'm going to go run outside just because I never get to see what its like in FREEZING weather. It's 32 degrees! Thanks for staying up late with me. I hope you had a great Christmas/ holiday season and I hope you have a fun filled new year!
love,

Dan.

i wonder if snow makes christmas more magical

the title of this blog has nothing to do with the content of this entry, other than the fact that it was question i asked myself this morning when i was driving back from the doctor's office. speaking of doctor's office, i had an upper respiratory infection. its all gone now, but im still coughing a bit and blowing my nose some. i was a coughing fiend! i sounded like an 80 yr old man who started smoking when he was 11. ya, that's how bad it was. oh ya, sorry for not posting in...forever (not that you care) I've been stupidly busy and i'm very very very happy this hellish semester is over. I did OK i guess, i know i could've done better, but thats always the case. at least i didn't fail anything, though i did get a D, which was surprising considering i BOMBED both the midterm and final. that was the hardest class ive ever taken and might ever take. the final was so hard that as soon as i looked at the essays i just wanted to turn it back in,lol. i'm sure it wouldn't have mattered. i am reeeeaaaallllly tired. anyways, back to this semester. let's reminice shall we? this was by far the most brutal semester i've had yet and i guess i ended up OK. next semester should be pretty difficult as well. band went OK. things didn't go as I planned but that isn't a bad thing. it was a learning experience and i was glad to do it again even though in the beginning i was disappointed and felt that doing band was a mistake. in the end it was worth it...but i can't wait until next year when i go to a football game and i can sit in the shade, maybe eat a hotdog, sit down. it'll be nice. i'll miss it, but it'll be nice. i'm huuuuunngry. i'm gunna go get a haircut after i get off of desk duty at noon, then maybe grab a bite to eat and possibly take a lil nappy poo. i love nappy poos. i go home a week from today and it will be nice to be home. i've got alot of work to do before then though. i'm working at sunglass hut for the rest of the week, except saturday. i'm still doing pep band and we are playing at the basketball game on saturday when the b-ball team plays UM at the bank atlantic center, it should be fun. i love pep band. alot.sooo..back to my chores. i want to have both my bulletin boards done before i leave, i want to have my room COMPLETELY cleaned. like, spotless. i'm gunna clean every part of my room really well and make it nice and neat so that when i come back in the spring i won't have to worry about it. i also want to have my bulletin boards done so i don't have to deal with that when i get back either. I think my motto, or mantra (i like mantra better) should be "do it now." because i ALWAYS put stuff off until the absolute last minute. for instance my research papers, if i did not pull 4 or 5 all nighters in the last 2 weeks of school, i would not have finished them. i was a giant idiot and i got lucky that i finished them. i know that if i want to pass this semester, i'm not going to be able to do that, especially because the end of the spring semester is ridiculously busy with checkouts and such. i joked with my friends that i wanted to choose one weekend at the end of january and stay up all night long doing our papers then,lol. wow, its hot in here! hmm..what else do i need to do before i leave?...oh yes! christmas shopping! i don't have gifts for ANYONE yet, oh, except izzy =). oh ya, i need to clean my truck out really well too, and maybe ill wash and wax it if i have time. hmm...my tummy just grumbled. that means im hungry. wow, that may have been the most useless sentence that i've EVER written in my entire life...you're welcome. alright, im f'nna pce out


laterzzzz

danno

and that's the way the cookie crumbles..

I haven't posted in awhile, I apologize. I've been really busy, plus I just haven't felt like writing. I am tired today, as I am most Mondays, but today I'm more tired. That's not cool at all. I wasn't going to write today either. I was going to work on a paper that I need to get done, but I'm too tired to do that. I'll work on it after this. My parents came down this weekend. It was nice hanging out with them. They bought me some new shoes which I needed pretty badly, so that was cool. This week is a bit hectic. I guess its the beginning of the end you could say. I've got a 2 papers to do this week, due Tuesday and Friday. I've got alot of reading to do, due Friday and I've got an exam on Friday as well. On top of all that, I've got two research papers that I need to start whenever I have time. Every free moment I have I want to spend studying for my exam because I want to get an A on this one like I know I can. Oh and I've also got a bulletin board to do by Thursday most likely. Oh ya, about the beginning of the end stuff...From here on out I've got to be working my butt off. There will be no rest or relaxation until December 9th at noon. That's right after my final. I'm going golfing that day, or something fun because November is going to be a rough month filled with nothing but papers and reading and papers and reading and some more reading and some more paper doing. I was thinking that if I didn't have my research papers done by Thanksgiving, that I wouldn't go home and just stay here and work on them for two days. I wouldn't have much distractions at all, but that would be lonely. Especially since we are probably all going to gather at my brother's house and I don't want to miss spending time with my family. I'm wearing my FIF hoodie and it has a really big hood and I could easily just pull it over my head, lean against the wall and fall asleep. MMM sleep. Colleen informed me that I don't have to do my desk hour tomorrow because I helped save some cats that a resident had kept in her room. Which means that I'll be able to fall into TWO small comas this week. That's what I say that I do on Thursdays because I wake up for my 8AM class and by 930AM I'm back in my room and then I pass out for at least 3 hours. I look forward to it very much. Now tomorrow I can do the same. I'm going to Disney World this Saturday!! Yay! Too bad its only for a day though, but still, it will be nice to see Aneysi and see Disney for free! Oh man, how could I forget to tell you about my Halloween?! Well first off, the football team lost so I was in a bad mood. But after I hung out with my parents for a couple hours after the game I went to "Moonfest" which is this giant Halloween party thing in City Place. It was OK. I went with some RAs because they were told that there was a haunted house somewhere (which we never found). Anyways, being there helped prove my theory on how stupid people are and also that I'm not like everyone else, and that people are smelly and disgusting. Moonfest was basically a big drunkfest. There THOUSANDS of people standing around city place in costumes and drinking and stuff like that and the combination of sweaty people, alcohol and trash made for quite a smelly time. I was just standing around looking at everyone thinking "this is what you people do for fun?! stand around drinking severly overpriced alcohol with very loud music playing while looking like a moron?" I know what you're thinking "Well then Dan, if you think that then why were you there?" I already told you, we went there for a haunted house. I didn't know it was going to be just like Bourbon Street. Anyways, I did have fun with the people I went with. We had a good time watching everyone walk by while waiting for these two kids to get a slice of pizza, which took about 2o minutes just because there were so many people in line. Also, large crowds like kind of scare me because of the potential chaos that can erupt, I know, I'm weird. I grew a goatee and my parents have never seen me with one so my mom thought it was funny and said something like "what's that on your face?" and my dad said "I think you forgot to wash your face" All in good fun though, I laughed. I wish I had time to practice drums more. A couple weeks ago I had a Friday night where I just stayed in and watched tv and practiced and learned some new music and I must say that it was quite nice and relaxing. I wish I had timie for more stuff like that. Oh well, I will eventually I suppose. I want to start teaching drumlines. I think it would be fun and I think I could do a pretty decent job. Well, I guess thats all the stuff I can think of to write you fine folks this very bright, Monday morning.

lateeerrrrrrzzz


Dan

decisions decisions

I've been thinking about grad school alot lately, mainly West Virginia. I went on their Dept. of History website and looked at the requirements to get into their grad school. You need a 3.0 in history courses and like 1000 on GRE's. I figured it out that if I get an A in every class for my last two semesters (spring and summer) I can raise my GPA in history classes up to a 3.2 actually, which is awesome, but the likelyhood of that happening are slim to none. I mean, maybe a few A's, but not ALL A's. I'm not even sure I'm going to pass Reformation Europe and Introduction to Historical Studies. I'm concerned about those two. I just really have to devote myself to those classes. I KNOW I can get an A in my Jefferson and Jackson class, I just have to try. I was also looking at the classes and stuff, and man, its a HECK of alot of work. I'm not sure I want to spend another two and half years in school, but imagine how much more knowledgeable I'd become. You also need 3 recommendation letters "who know your academic abilities." I have NO ONE who can write those. I never really talk to my teachers, that's mostly because I haven't been the best student. I can see maybe one of my teachers doing it. I just don't know. I've been thinking WVU because its in a historically rich state and its basically the exact opposite of Florida (cold and not flat as opposed to hot and flat). I'm tired of south Florida and I want some sort of difference. I want to know why everyone comes to south Florida. Is winter really THAT bad? I'd like to find out for myself. As you already know, I've been thinking about not being an RA next semester. I like being an RA, I just wish that I had a better relationship with my residents. I always see RAs in the dorms who are almost best friends with their residents. That's so hard to do in the apartments and I feel like everyone just thinks of me as a burden and annoying. If I was evaluating myself as an RA, I think I suck,lol. There's only one person who can change that, and thats me. I've got to change my study habits, get my butt to the library almost everyday, go around and talk to my residents more and be a better RA. Life seems kind of tough at the moment but I suppose its all works out in the end, I just don't see how it can at the moment. This might be the most depressing blog I've written since I had a Live Journal! Boy those were some sucky times, stupid too,lol. Well, I was stupid then, maybe the times weren't. I put my Christmas lights up around my room, they're nice and I enjoy them. I can't wait to get my Christmas tree! I love Christmas time. I wonder if my sister will be around then. She lives in Indiana now, thats far! It'd be nice to have the whole family together, thats always fun. Even though I don't really like going to mass with my dad, I always loved Christmas Eve mass because the whole family was there, it was usually pretty cold, we usually got pizza after and it was just a very pleasant time, and exciting knowing that I was going to get presents the next morning! Wow, if that's not the longest sentence I've ever written. I never write this late but I didn't feel like going to bed, even though I'm really tired. I just thought I'd write to you all. I hope you enjoyed it!

Shalom

Dan

Someone let the air out of my balloon..

...and now I have no motivation to do much of anything, school work or RA work. I feel deflated, last week is what did it. I BOMBED both my midterms. They are both worth 20% so we'll see how everything else goes. I only need a C, as long as I pass I'll be happy. Sorry for not posting yesterday, I didn't switched desk hours with Stephen. I'll be taking his shift tomorrow instead. I am quite tired today, I'm probably going to go take a nice nap after this. Oh, I did get a B on my book review and I'll probably get the same grade on my oral history project as well, I haven't presented yet, but I will on Thursday. I've got a program tonight that should be fun. It's an educational with Veronica. It's about sustainability and we are going to build bridges out of stuff that you can recycle. I want Virtual Drumline 2. I want to try to start writing music. I've been thinking of some cool licks that I think we can play. I've really got to work hard the rest of the semester if I want to pass and stay on track to graduate at the end of the summer. I want to get out of Florida if I go to grad school, I'm thinking West Virginia. I want get out of Florida to see why people come here. Does every other place suck so bad? Is that why people flock to South Florida? Plus, I'd like to go to someplace that is historically rich and West Virginia seems like a cool place. Oh, and I'd like to go somepace that has an established football progam,lol. I've been to a place that is just starting out, I'd like to go someplace that is just the opposite of that. I can't believe that I could be graduating college soon, that's just plain ridiculous. What am I going to do after that? I'm not really scared about it or anything, its just weird to think that I am going to be solely responsible for my well being, for the most part anyway. Oh, well I'm sure that you are wondering how my gator hunt went. Well, we didn't get one. It was just had the worst luck this year from hunting during a full moon (somehow it affects everything in nature) to losing harpoons to 20 mph winds blowing us all over the lake. I could tell you the entire story, but I don't feel like typing that much. Long story short, we hooked one, harpooned it, my brother went to bangstick it, he didn't hit it hard enough so the bullet didn't go off and the gator took off and then the harpoon came out. Game over. It was 3:00 AM, about 45 degrees and blowing about 20mph winds. It was time to go home. Too bad, there's always next year. And yes, Isabella is still as cute as ever. The Five Iron Frenzy DVD is coming out "this winter" and I'm VERY excited for it! I went back and read one of my blogs and I REALLY jump from subject to subject,lol. I put up my Christmas lights in my room last night. I know its only October, but I love Christmas and it just felt right. I can't wait until Thanksgiving weekend when I'll buy my tree! Well alrighty, I guess I've bored you enough.

Love,

Dan

blogging on a tuesday morning?!

Sure, what the hay, I'm a fun loving guy! So my test this morning didn't go THAT bad, but I still think it went bad. There were 3 questions that I had no clue what the answer was and probably a couple others that I did not get completely right. It will depend on how difficult he grades them, hopefully I did well enough to get a C+. I have a program today at 4. It's a sand soccer tournament. I hope it goes well and there's a good turnout. After that's over I have my staff meeting, then after that I'm going to go to the library to do my book review. I'm hoping to get it completely done tonight. It only has to be 3 pages so that shouldn't be too bad. Then tomorrow I'm going to interview my dad about his involvement in the Vietnam War for my oral history project, and yes, that's for the same class that my book review is due. I'm hungry and I want to take nap. I was sort of hoping that next week would slow things down a bit, and they sorta do because I don't have any assignments due that week, but I have to start working on my research papers. I was looking at my calendar last night trying to figure out a good day to be done with them was, and I came up with...any day before the due date is fine,lol. Actually I'm hoping to have BOTH papers done, the one for Jefferson and Jackson as well as my history of coal mining in the Appalachian mountains for my HIS 3150 class. Man I can't for that class to be over, but I do want to write a good paper. If I work my butt off for the next two or three weeks, meaning spending a couple hours a night in the library doing my papers then I think I can have them done by the third week of November, BUT, I also have ANOTHER paper due the 3rd week of November, so that sort of throws a wrench in the bicycle tire that is my paper writing process. Although I think that paper isn't very difficult, its about a movie afterall and the teacher says he wants us to "have fun" with it. Man, this has to be really boring for you to read, all I do was babble on about school. I need to start making these blogs more exciting for you, my loyal reader/s. I guess thats all for now. This weekend should be fun, filled with lots of alligators and cute babies!

Good day all

Dan

You can't handle this..

Although I'm sure you can, I just felt like starting the week off by being very cliche and using lyrics to a song that I'm listening to at the moment. It's a Five Iron Frenzy song and its about being a geek in high school. OK, enough of this nonsense, let's get down to some serious blogging. Let's see, what do I usually talk about here, oh yes, school! School sucks this week. I feel like I've mentioned that before. Its just this stupid Intro to Historical Studies class. I have THREE things do this week in that class. A midterm-which he barely gave a review for, a book review-totally fine with, I haven't read the book but that doesn't matter, and an oral history project- I'm hoping I can interview Oscar sometime today to get that out of the way. Now I just don't see the point in having all those things in one week, especially when its only a TR class. The teacher is just a mean old man who makes his class hard just for the heck of it. Well at least now if I'm a teacher I can say, "I had this one professor in college that was blah blah blah..." Hooray for that. Oh, and I also have a midterm in my Reformation Europe class. I really like that class. I've taken great notes in that class so hopefully it pays off. I'll hopefully be starting to study for it on Wednesday. On Thursday I'll be doing a study group for it so that will help too. The best thing about this week is that when its over I get to see Isabella! I'm going gator hunting again with my brother to fill his last tag. I want a 12 footer. Anyways, back to the baby. I hope she remembers me! i can't wait to see her and give her a big hug and kiss! Its weird that babies make people do that. I've a program tomorrow, its a Sand Soccer Tournament, which reminds me, I need to make shirt for the winners. I hope its a good turnout. I really can't believe how busy things are. Man, if I wasn't an RA and there was no marching band life would be SO much easier. I want to play on my friend's flag football team that plays in Ft. Lauderdale. I'd also like to be in a bowling league, but those things can't really happen if I'm an RA. Oh well, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. I say "we" because I want you to feel like you are apart of this blog. I sound like Libby Larsen, ha! Those of you that did not attend the concert will have no idea what I'm talking about, and I'm OK with that, I like keeping people in the dark in what is supposed to be someplace that people can see what I'm REALLY talking about. Dani is taking my 9AM desk hour since I took her 10AM desk hour last week so hooray for that. Although I can't really go back to bed because I have class at 11 and if I go back to sleep I won't wake up until like 1:00, lol. I've got too much work to do anyway. I seem to only write once a week, maybe thats enough. Things might get too old if I update too often because my life is so boring. Alrighty peeps, I'ma peace outa here.


Nad

monday morning bloggyness

Good morning folks, today is Monday and that means that I'm at the desk with nothing better to do than talk to you fine people. Actually, that's not true, I have a book to read but I'm too tired at the moment to comprehend anything so I'll read it. It's called "The Cheese and the Worms" its a book about the study of pop culture in the 16th century, my teacher says we'll like it, but I'm not going to take his word for it( ::sings reading rainbow noise::). I like being at the desk alone, but only when its not busy. Right now its nice and quiet, no one here, I can sit back, listen to some music on my phone, think about junk and pour my heart and soul out to you. My heel huuuuuuuurts. Not right now, but it does a lot. It's weird. Its numb on the outside and sometimes it will hurt so much that I can't walk. It doesn't matter if I'm running or not (although it doesn't help) because the other day I woke up at like 5 and it hurt so bad that I could not go back to sleep. Crap, I just remembered I have a bulletin board to do tonight. Oh well. I bought a new golf bag last night, it was only $40. You can't really beat that, I'm excited about it. OK, let's see what else we've got here...I've REALLY got to start working on my two research papers and I plan on working on them after next week because thats when my midterms and stuff will be done so I can focus more on them. I'm also going gator hunting again with my brother next weekend. I can't wait to so Isabella, she makes me happy. After that I won't really do anything but work on research papers and study and read. Woo! I am going to Disney in Novemeber for a day with Aneysi though! The FIF DVD is coming out "this winter" which probably means it will come out the last day of winter,lol. I hope that there's a video of the last show. I told Katie that if there was that I'd cry, and I probably would,lol. But I don't think there will be. I know there will be live footage, but probably not the last show. Oh well, at least its coming out...7 years later. What should I do for my bulletin board? That's another thing I wouldn't have to worry about if I wasn't an RA, although I sort of feel like I will just stick it out. We'll see what happens. I'm wearing a red shirt. I figured I'd let you know what I was wearing just in case you were sitting there, "hmm, I wonder what color shirt Dan has on." Your welcome" I REALLY hope that I don't have 8AM class next semester or 8 AM desk. That would make me very happy, yes, very happy indeed. I need to call my mother, I'll probably call her after I get off desk duty but she'll probably be in a meeting like she is every Monday morning when I call her. Maybe today will be different. Showbread is playing a show in West Palm Beach on Wednesday, I hope I can leave band early so I can make it. It'd be nice to go with someone, but who? None of my friends like them,lol. The book I have to read by Wednesday is 128 pages, I think I can do it, plus if I don't finish it I don't think it will be that bad, just as long as I finish it by Friday, then I'll spend all weekend reading another book and studying and doing a book review for my Intro to Historical Studies class. Man I can't for this class to be over. I just really don't like that teacher. Oh well, gotta get it done. I wish marching band was cancelled today, that would've been awesome. Well ladies and gents, I think we've come to the end. I hope you hate it.

Love,

Dan

did i make a wrong turn?

Did I lose my way somewhere down this long winding road that I've traveled in college? I ask this question because things just seem weird lately. Nothing feels the same. I can see the end is sight but what do I do when I get there? I figured on teaching but I'm not so sure anymore. Honestly I've never had that feeling of "THAT'S what I'm going to do." I always hear people say, "I took this class once and in the first day of class I knew that that this is exactly what I wanted to do." Why did that never happen to me? I've tried a bunch of different classes and never had a definitive "yes" in my mind. Don't get me wrong, I like history, I really do, but is that what I want to do with the rest of my life? While I was sitting in the libary reading a book for my class I thought about doing something with libraries, like a librarian or researcher. That might be the nerdiest thing ever, but I love the library. I love the fact that there is so much history, science, information and education that is just waiting there, all you have to do is open a book. OK, enough of this mumbo jumbo. Well I've been thinking about not being an RA for the spring. I like the job, I like my staff, I like my boss, but the thought of not having to deal with the responsibilities that go with the job seem very enticing and I know I'm not alone in my thinking that things seem different. Maybe its because its a new year, new people or maybe the excitment of the job and everything that goes with it have just sort of fizzled out. I'm not even talking about just with other RA's. Even others who are involved on campus sort of feel the same thing. On the other hand, I have a free housing, a free meal or two a week and a small paycheck here. Sometimes the RA job is not a job at all and my life is no different, then there are times where its hectic and very difficult. Ahh, decisions decisions. School sucks. I've got a test on Friday, I'll be studying all day and all night. I've got a book to read by next Wednesday. I'll try to get that done on Sunday, maybe half of it. Then I've got a midterm and a book review due the following week. Arg. If I can make it through the next two week I'll be OK. I'll be working on catching up on every bit of reading I've been assigned as well as getting my two term papers done. Should be a fun rest of the semester. My heel hurts, very weird. I wish I could talk with a South African accent, just imagine the chics I'd get!! J/k. Well I guess thats it for now. I've got class at 8 then I'll probably come home, take a rest and hit the books forever. Sorry if my words are messed up, I've been watching "Blood Diamond" and not paying attenton while I write.

Rock On


Dan

wumbology

What up fools? I asked that like I'll be getting a response. No, but seriously, my heel really hurts. I think it only really hurts when my foot is at certain angle. Weird, eh? You guessed it, I'm at the desk, which is why I'm blogging. It makes the time go by faster. Ashley did my 8AM hour which was awesome because I got to sleep in more, not much, more is better than less. Lately I've felt like quitting everything,lol. Work is hard, school is hard, band is not going how I planned and I don't feel like doing anything anymore. I just had to get up to let someone in and I realized my knee hurts, ouch, it hurts. Anyways, I guess I just need to take one thing at a time. I look at my planner for the month and I cringe looking at everything that has to get done, papers, books to be read, assignments, programs, football games and whatever else is thrown my way. I keep looking at that and freak out and wonder if its even worth trying because there's so much to do. I know thats a stupid argument, which is why that argument always loses! I know I can do well, I just have to sit down and do it, plain and simple. OK, enough about sad/boring stuff. In other happy and cute news- My mom and dad visited my brother last week and my mom said she asked Izzy "where's uncle Dan?" and then Izzy walked over the room that I always stay in looked to see if I was there. I love that child. My brother has baby chickens and my dad said that she likes to shake the cage with the chicks in it and then laugh,lol. I can't wait to see her next. I'm going gator hunting again in mid-October to fill my brother's other tag so I'm happy I'll get to see her then! Hopefully we get a 10 footer or bigger, that would be cool. Let's see,what else is going on...I need a haircut before Friday. I wanted to get one before the first game but I didn't really have time. Hopefully I can get one on Friday. I've got two tests this week so I'll be doing lots and lost of studying, I've also got to read a book for a book review for my Intro to Historical Studies class. There's never any let up in that class, my stomach turns everytime I think of it. I've got a midterm in two weeks from tomorrow and the book review due two weeks from Thursday. Now tell me, what kind of mean person puts those kind of assignments so close together?! Ugh, I just can't wait for this semester to be over. This is by far the hardest semester I've ever had, but thats to be expected since I'm taking all major courses and I'm trying to be an RA and a good section leader. Boy oh boy, talk about fun! I had a cold all last week and its almost gone now, hooray for that. If I was a Wumbology major, life would be so much easier. But what would I do with my degree? Alrighty kids, its time for this uncle Dan to peace out.

laterrrrrrr

Dan

What Are You Eating Under There?

....Underwear?! HAHAHAHAHA! I turned in my Library Project today and its safe to say that I got almost all of them...wrong. Ya, it was bad. Honestly, it was one of the most difficult assignments I've ever had and for a 3000 level course? It certainly doesn't feel that way. Anyways, my teacher will think I'm lazy and a bad student but I'll show him in the end that I am a good student and not a moron. In other news, I think I'm getting sick. My throat started hurting last night in the library and it continued today. Hopefully a good night's sleep will help. I'm at the desk covering for Ashley and he's taking my 8AM desk shift on Monday. I'm totally cool with that. I'll enjoy the extra hour I get to sleep in. Well the sucky part of the week is over so after today I'll try to get prepared for my hellish two weeks ahead. Football game this weekend! ULM vs FAU! It should be a good game. I don't think the home team has ever won. I hope we destroy them on our way to the Sunbelt title and the New Orleans Bowl. I love my niece, just the thought of her makes me smile, she's the greatest. Anyone got any cool programs ideas? I need to turn in a proposal on Thursday. I s'pose thats all for now.

love,

Dan

hmm..lets blog

Bliggity Blogging Blog. There, I Blogged. Why am I capitalizing "Blog?" Anyways, this was a long weekend. I was on duty and I had quite a busy Saturday dealing with residents and junk. I wrote a couple people up for an alcohol violation. It was the first time I had to make them pour it out. I felt kind of bad because it was probably about $40 worth of beer,lol. Oh well, they should'nt have broken the rules. Actually, it was their friends fault who didn't even live there. They were drinking outside which is basically a giant sign saying "PLEASE COME DUMP OUT THE REST OF OUR BEER." Seriously, that's what it is. I tweaked my groin muscle last night at our first flag football game. It sucked. It hurt alot last night but it is feeling better. I've got a very difficult assignment for my Intro to Historical Studies class. It's basically a sadistic scavenger hunt for information in the library,lol. My teacher gave us 20 questions to find answers to in the library. Very obscure, difficult things to find. Its hard, but I kind of like it(I think). I almost feel guilty for saying that,lol. Its homework, I'm not supposed to like homework. Anyway, back to the point, I'll be spending pretty much ALL day in the library until band. I hope I can have it done before band because I want to watch HOUSE tonight! Over the summer I became obsessed with this show,lol. In the beginning it was like, "God House is such a jerk, I hate this show, why do I watch it?" and then the beginning of the next episode would start and I'd be hooked again,lol. But seasons four and five have been dynamite! I'm excited for this new season. Let's see, what else. Like I said in a previous post, this week is not so intense, but the next two after this are going to be mad crazy. I need to read two books, do a paper, do a program, football games, ya know, the works! I need to get a haircut. I usually get one the day before football games so I look sharp in my uniform, plus I don't want to get shako(hat) hair. That's the worst! I'm glad I'm finally starting to hit my stride. I have an idea on how to handle everyting, I'm getting more organized and I'm trying to be more responisble. Look at me, I'm growing up while you read my blog. Mother would be so proud. Well my desk shift is almost done so I will Blog to you later.

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good evening all

Hello all of you out there in bloggertown, I hope that this blog finds you well and happy and wearing pants. There's been alot of stuff that I've been meaning to write about here, but I just haven't had the time. Let's see, where to start, where to start...Ok, well how about some news I just found out tonight? It seems one of drumline members is crazy? Apparantly some stuff went down at a gathering last night and he's quitting. So now we are down a bass drummer, if you know anyone who can play bass drum, be sure to let me know. Soon. In other news, I'm bummed that we are playing the motown show for FBA. That is probably our most important show of the year and we aren't going to be playing our best show. Honestly, if I were in high school and I saw a college drumline playing eighth notes and playing on the cymbals for the whole show, I wouldn't really want to go march there. Anyways, I'll take "What's going on in Dan's school life for $300"...I've been uber busy, but I like it (sometimes). I spent pretty much all week long trying to get organized and I think I've finally succeeded. So that means that I'm finally beginning to manage my time more efficiently and "to-do lists" are the way to go. I make a list of everything that needs to get done that day and cross it off as I get it done and I don't go to bed until the list is done, at least thats the idea. This week won't be so busy so I'm going to take advantage of it and try to get ahead in school. Although its not really getting ahead, its more of just getting prepared for the onslaught of reading, tests and papers that are coming up. In other awesome and unbelievably exciting news: The Five Iron Frenzy DVD is FINALLY coming out!!!! I swear to you, I got goosebumbs when I read it online (maybe it was just cold in my room). I cannot wait for this. It says its coming this Winter, which I hope means sometime in December. AHH! YAY! Ok, my geek is showing, I'll stop now. Alright ladies and gents, I guess thats all for now. I'll try to keep you updated and the non stop boring-ness that is my life more often.

Go Owls

Dan

im gunna be the next perez hilton

...except not fat, with no frosted tips and not liking boys. anyways, im watching House. boy am I tired. i was checking my email while at dinner tonight and i saw that someone in one of my classes wrote an email to the class asking if there was a project due tomorrow...i wanted to cry since i didnt know we had one due. i figured that after the project we had to turn in on thursday we wouldn't have one due the VERY next class...but we don't, so hooray for that, at least for now. its difficult to write while watching house, well any tv really. i used to cringe everytime i thought of waking up for my 8AM desk hour and my 8AM class, but now I just sort of shrug it off. I'm not saying that I'm getting used to it, I'm just dealing with it. hopefully next semester i wont have ANYTHING to do at 8AM. wow, could this blog be ANYMORE boring, i like writing in caps to REALLY empasize my POINT. oh! here's something exciting. today i went to the store with nick and katie and green puss came out of my finger because its infected because i bit my nail to fair down the side. maybe i wont blog everyday, only days where exciting things happen. today in band dr murray yelled. he's scary when he yells. we're doing a show of "the who" songs. i like it. i wish that the percussion parts were alittle bit more demanding, but oh well, what can you do in college drumline. anyways, im boring myself so im sure im boring you. anyways, look at my neice and you'll be happy!

this will make me cool right?

Well I'm hoping so. I set up a tumblr account like, five minutes ago but I decided to just come back to good ole blogspot...I set this up a LONG time ago and made one post. Anyways, so you're reading this because you want to creep on all that's going on in my life? Cool! Well let's see, my ringer finger hurts on my right hand, and thats about it. I keed I keed. I'm pretty sure its infected actually,lol. I'm at the front desk by myself. I don't know where Colleen is (she's the secretary.) I know where Oscar is because I can see him on the security cameras we have...creeeeper! j/k. I'm tired, but not that tired. I was going to make a banner while I was at the desk for my program on Thursday...but I didn't. Wow, could this get anymore boring? I used to have a livejournal...I made a couple posts but they were all about annoying emotional crap and stuff. This year is difficult, school is kicking my high-knee. That alone is pretty tough but being in marching band as well as trying to be a good RA is making things tough. Oh well, I'll make it. Only five more classes until i can graduate, but I can't take all of them at the same time because all 3 our writing intensive courses as well as one is a pre-requisit to the next. I need an Asian history class, another history elective, Senior Seminar, History of Civ 1&2 and thats it. Pretty crazy huh? By this time next year I could be in the REAL world. Almost scary. Alrighty I'm outie

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